Scholarship. Special dividends of 700 million lei from Banca Transilvania in autumn? Omer Tetik, CEO: If the bank’s performance continues and the economic indicators improve, then we will ask the shareholders. We have extra reserves. The bank’s shares have advanced 56% in the past year and 28% since the beginning of 2026

Omer Tetik, CEO, Banca Transilvania: The dividend in shares is almost equivalent to the one in cash. Shareholders – especially institutional ones – enjoy receiving stocks with good stock market performance.♦ Based on the figures of the current year, the budget approved by the shareholders foresees a profit before tax of 5.1 billion lei, 6.1% above the level of the previous year ♦ «I look at the results so far and I am comfortable with the commitment to deliver these figures».Banca Transilvania (stock symbol TLV) organized on Tuesday the conference to present the results for the first quarter of 2026, an event watched by investors and analysts as the management of the largest bank in Romania offers every time an x-ray of the economy, the business environment and the direction in which the banking sector and financing are heading. One of the topics raised by the analysts in the question session concerned the approximately 700 million lei left undistributed from the profit of 2025 and the possibility of a new distribution in the fall of 2026. This after 2025 was the most generous year in the history of the bank towards shareholders, with a total of about 4 billion lei reaching investors through dividends and free shares, which supported the appreciation of the shares by almost 56% in the last year only from the price of the shares. You may also be interested: «We have carried over results of almost 700 million lei, distributable at a given time, as we did last fall», said general manager Ömer Tetik, CEO of the bank valued by investors at 42 billion lei. He did not make any commitment, but left the option open. «We don’t want to make a commitment now, but if the business performance continues and the economic indicators improve, we could come back to ask the shareholders.» Distributions already approved: the cash dividend of 1.2840 gross lei per share is paid on June 30, with ex-date on June 15. The free shares – 14.42 shares for every 100 held – have ex-dates on July 16 and are distributed on July 20. At the current price of 38.6 lei, the cash dividend is about 3.5%. Reserves of 700 million lei mean a yield of almost 2%. Tetik also justified why the remuneration in shares should not be seen as inferior to the one in cash. «The dividend in shares is almost equivalent to the one in cash. Shareholders – especially the institutional ones – are happy to receive securities with good performance on the stock market. «TLV advanced 56% in the last year and 28% since the beginning of 2026. Based on the figures of the current year, the budget approved by the shareholders foresees a profit before tax of 5.1 billion lei, 6.1% above the level of the previous year. «I look at the results so far and I am comfortable with the commitment to deliver these figures», said Tetik. The main beneficiaries are the pension funds of pillar 2, which collectively own approximately 28% of the bank, the former financial investment companies which together control 18% of the shares, and tens of thousands of individual investors from the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

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